Wrongdoing Quotes - Page 3

• The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

  Homer

  Men, Cities, Kind

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• With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.

  Adrian Peterson

  Judging, People, Wiser You

  "Adrian Peterson opens up on new-look Vikings, his future and finding peace". Interview with Tom Pelissero, www.usatoday.com. June 18, 2014.

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• If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.

  Phil Angelides

  Next Day, Able, Settling

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• I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.

  David Hoffman

  Strong, Real, Mean

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• But there is one whom you do not deceive, and that is Christ, our Lord. He knows all. Personally, I have felt that nobody need keep much of a record about me, except what I keep myself in my mind, which is a part of my spirit. I often question in my mind, whether it is going to require very many witnesses in addition to my own wrongdoing.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Mind, Needs, Records

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• Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Children, Believe

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• But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Dark, People, Forgiving

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• In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Impossible, Predicaments, Statesmanship

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

  Karl Barth

  Business, War, Passion

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• The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the people most responsible for that wrongdoing, and rely on those people to correct the problems that those people themselves authorized.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, People, Community

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Compassion, Suffering

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• We reject President Donald Trump's view. It was a mistake to say that 'the Islamic world divided into "good" and "evil"', a major wrongdoing.

  Khaled Mashal

  Mistake, Islamic, Evil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Vices, Members, Detection

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.12

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• Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

  Mason Cooley

  Guilt, Trifles, Habitual

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• In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken the law or committed wrongdoing, people turned to a God who would judge them on the one hand and redeem their sins on the other. In this way, purely from slef-interest, the project of creating God in our own image proceeded--and continues to proceed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Law, Creating, Hands

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• I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Doctors, Views

  The Physician's Oath (translation byW. H. S. Jones)

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• The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

  Martha Beck

  Moments, Capacity, Obligation

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• With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Hatred, Tolerance

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1975). “The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier: 1828-1845”, p.238, Harvard University Press

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• Until we see something that is actually wrongdoing, we're probably not going to go on a fishing trip to go see look at.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Fishing, Looks, Goes On

  "Reince Priebus, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz". 'This Week', abcnews.go.com. January 15, 2017.

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• Once we realise that utilitarianism comes with the idea of blameworthy rightdoing (such as when you push a big man onto the tracks in order to save five lives) and blameless wrongdoing (such as when you don't push a big man onto the tracks in order to save five lives), then utilitarianism all of a sudden appears to give the right answers.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Men, Order, Ideas

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Taken, Morality, Evidence

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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• The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.

  Madeleine Albright

  Cover Ups, Initials

  Madeleine Albright (2001). “Madam Secretary”, Miramax Books

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• All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Worry, Support, Challenges

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• I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that. But there is a competing interest, and that is the ability of prosecutors to get information that may be absolutely essential to assist them in the investigation of illegal wrongdoing. And so you've got these two competing interests. I believe that the current policy at the Department of Justice reflects a careful balancing of those interests.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

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• Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Christian, Violence

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